Is Light a Macroscopic or Microscopic System?

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Macroscopic? Microscopic?
 
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StevieTNZ said:
Macroscopic? Microscopic?

Not sure u can call light as a system. Light participates in both macroscopic (like refraction of light rays in water) and microscopic (like absorbion of a light photon from an electron) phenomena. For me light and more general the electromagnetic field is the "glue" that binds the microscopic (where strong and weak nuclear force dominate) and macroscopic(where gravity dominates) world
 
Light is a not system.
 
Thanks for the responses.